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title: Then Iktomi, happy with the smile of the sunset sky, followed a foot… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Iktomi, happy with the smile of the sunset sky, followed a footpath leading toward a thicketed ravine. Who acts: Iktomi, footpath. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi's Blanket, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 29

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Then Iktomi, happy with the smile of the sunset sky, followed a footpath leading toward a thicketed ravine.

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**Who acts:** Iktomi, footpath · **What happens:** follow, lead, smile · **To what, where:** footpath, thicketed ravine, sunset sky

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi's Blanket. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iktomi, footpath), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:3:29
# text = Then Iktomi, happy with the smile of the sunset sky, followed a footpath leading toward a thicketed ravine.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	footpath	footpath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	thicketed	thicketed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ravine	ravine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Iktomi | a footpath |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footpath=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund | a footpath *not said here* |  |  | a thicketed ravine |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent toward ravine=Destination |
| 3 | **smile** |  |  | the sunset sky |  |  |  |  | nom smile «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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